Milestones, Jul. 8, 1940

Died. Wilbur Neil Burkhardt, 50, crusading editor of the Scripps-Howard
San Francisco News; of injuries received when he jumped from the San
Francisco-Oakland Bridge; in San Francisco.

Died. Lady Conan Doyle, 65, widow of Spiritualist-Writer Arthur Conan
Doyle (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, etc.) with whom she claimed to
have been in communication since his death in 1930; of heart failure
after an operation; in London.

Died. Patrick McKenna, 65, bald, bespectacled White House doorkeeper; 37
years to the day after he started ushering during the Theodore
Roosevelt Administration ; of a kidney ailment; in...